Justification
Grace
Merit
Holiness
100

This is the most excellent work of God's love

What is justification?

100

This kind of grace makes us children of God.

What is sanctifying grace? (or deifying grace or habitual grace)

100

This is the right to recompense (reward) for a good deed.

What is merit?

100

All the baptized faithful are called to this.

What is Christian holiness?

200

This is what is taken away by justification.

What is sin?

200

These are the theological virtues given to us with sanctifying grace.

What are faith, hope, and love?

200

This Person is the source of our merits before God.

Who is Jesus Christ?

200

Holiness is brought about by this.

What is intimate union with Christ?
300

Justification is merited for us by this.

What is the Passion of Christ?

300

Sanctifying grace makes us sharers in this.

What is the divine nature? (or the Trinitarian life, or the life of God)

300

Merits for good works must first of all be attributed to this.

What is the grace of God?

300

The path to holiness goes by way of this.

What is the Cross?

400

Justification is conferred on us individually by this sacrament.

What is Baptism?

400

These graces are gifts from God for specific circumstances.

What are actual graces?

400

Merits for good works are attributed to this, only after first being attributed to the grace of God.

What is the free will of man?

400

Holiness will come to fulfillment in this.

What is the final resurrection of the just?

500

Justification requires this from man.

What is his free response?

500

This is the name of the graces we receive from the sacraments.

What are sacramental graces?

500

Moved by the Holy Spirit, we can merit the graces needed for our sanctification and eternal life. We can even merit temporal goods that are suitable for us. No one, however, can merit this:

What is the initial grace which is at the origin of conversion and justification.

500

In Heaven, this reality will be all in all.

Who is God?